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Customer reviews

Fast Drive - Great Price

Reviewed by
James.
Review Posted
25/01/2011

55

This is a great drive. I bought it for a new Win 7 Pro install and I am very impressed with the performance. The price point and massive capacity make this an easy buy :-)
One thing to watch out for: older Gigagbyte MBs may render the drive useless (at a 32 MB capacity).
If this happens update your BIOS and restore the drive to factory settings using this tool - http://blog.atola.com/restoring-factory-hard-drive-capacity/

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Foursome in RAID 10

Reviewed by
Brian.
Review Posted
28/01/2011

55

Awesome speed and keen price. Using 4 of them in a RAID 10 array with Ubuntu. Who needs SSD?

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Brilliant drive at a great price

Reviewed by
Adam.
Review Posted
05/12/2010

55

I purchased 4 of these for use in a new DAW configuration. I was intending to use them in a RAID setup, but I've found the performance to be so good there was no need. I'm running a big project here, one drive handling around 120 audio tracks (mono 48KHz 32bit) without any problem at all.Very happy.

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and they are still making Velociraptor ?

Reviewed by
doug thompson.
Review Posted
25/07/2010

55

If you are a speed freak you would choose a Velociraptor until now. Where as this drive is a 1ms slower of average seek time(finding your data) its has 4 times the buffer space, faster internal data bus. Double the speen of the SAS to the buffer. so unless your disk is badly fragmented the 1ms difference is meaningless. The difference matter is in the order of magnitude in the Mean Time between Failures where this drive wins. I assume that WD are looking at the mechanics of the Velociraptor with a view to upgrading that to 6gbps. What is also compelling is the comparison between Fibre Channel, you would have though that it should be fast, it was when 4gbps was fast; its not just horribly expensive. This drive is quite stunning as part of a RAID set for performence. It will fit will with my 6core AMD and 1800Mhz ram.

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Super Duper

Reviewed by
tazdotcom.
Review Posted
13/04/2010

55

I have been replacing my internal HD on my Mac's each time increasing the size. So far Western Digital haven't failed me once. But this new HD OMG is super doper fast and great for watching video files without any drop frames. A must!!!

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SATA 600MB/s vs 126MB

Reviewed by
doug.
Review Posted
16/06/2010

45

When you are looking for the fastest disk for your next upgrade its easy to think that if its a 600MB/s interface that thats tyhe speed of the IO not so, actual IO is specified to 126MB/s. So it being SATA600 is irrelivant (ie its really SATA126). However it does have a 64MB cache and its cheap. If you compare it to a spindle of 10k rpm or 15k then they can always find data faster than a 7200rpm.Eg look at track to track seek time and latency. If you format it with large sectors then this will get more out of the cache. You then have to look at what you are going to use if for.The WD drive has an excellent build quality, MTBF and to get kick out of it its best to put it in a striped raid to overcome the slow RPM and yet lever its benefits.

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Will not install

Reviewed by
L Stewart.
Review Posted
08/04/2011

15

if you have Windows 7 64bit do not get this drive or the 160Gb one as it will not installit is not recognised in the bios no whotever you do.

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Unreliable

Reviewed by
Matt H.
Review Posted
10/03/2011

15

Although performance is impressive, I have been plagued with reliability issues.

My first drive started to fail after only 3 months. Western Digital promptly sent out a (remanufactured) warranty replacement. This lasted 2 weeks before also staring to fail. I received a third warranty replacement which failed diagnostic tests straight out of the box. I'm not even sure I'm going to bother sending it back to get another - I've kind of lost faith in Western Digital now!

Looking at the WD forums it would seem I am not alone in experiencing repeated failures with this drive model.

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